HPE OneView for infrastructure management

Optimized for collaboration, productivity, and reliability, HPE OneView is designed to provide simple, single-pane-of-glass life cycle management for the complex aspects of enterprise IT—servers, networking, software, power and cooling, and storage.

HPE OneView makes it possible to easily monitor, configure, and manage physical and logical server, network, and storage resources through either a GUI or by using REST (REpresentational State Transfer) APIs.

HPE OneView is designed to manage your converged infrastructure and support key scenarios such as deploying bare-metal servers, deploying hypervisor clusters from bare metal, performing ongoing hardware maintenance, and responding to alerts and outages. It is designed for the physical infrastructure must support virtualization, cloud computing, big data, and mixed computing environments.

HPE OneView is delivered as a virtual appliance, a preconfigured virtual machine ready to be deployed on a hypervisor host.

HPE OneView is a scalable, resource-oriented solution focused on the entire life cycle—from initial configuration to on-going monitoring and maintenance—of both physical and logical resources:

• Physical resources are objects you can touch, such as server hardware, interconnects, top-of-rack switches, enclosures, storage systems and racks.

• Logical resources are virtual objects such as templates or groups that when applied to physical resources, provide a common structure across your data center. For example, server profile templates, logical interconnect groups, enclosure groups, server profiles, and volume templates are logical resources.

Software-defined flexibility—your experts design configurations for efficient and consistent deployment

HPE OneView provides several software-defined resources, such as server profile templates, to enable you to capture the best practices of your experts across a variety of disciplines, including networking, storage, hardware configuration, and operating system build and configuration. By having your experts define server profile templates and the networking groups and resources, you can eliminate cross-silo disconnects. By using SBAC (scope-based access control) and the groups, sets, and server profile templates established by your experts, you can enable system administrators to provision and manage hundreds of servers without requiring that your experts be involved with every server deployment.

HPE OneView combines complex and interdependent data center provisioning and management into one simplified and unified interface. You can:

• Provision the data center.

• Manage and maintain firmware and configuration changes.

• Monitor the environment and respond to issues.

HPE OneView manages servers and enclosure networking resources, supports connections from enclosures to storage, and provides information to help you manage data center power and cooling:

• Servers are represented and managed through server profiles and server profile templates.

• Networking is an essential component to provisioning and managing data center servers.

• Management software is integrated with HPE OneView for seamless operation.

• Environmental management—such as power, cooling, and space planning—requires that you consider all the equipment in the entire data center, including equipment not managed by HPE OneView. HPE OneView consolidates data center power and cooling information into one interactive view.

• Storage provisioning and management with automated zoning is available. Storage devices connect to the enclosures using the following:

  • Fibre Channel fabric attach (SAN switch) connections.

  • Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) fabric attach (SAN switch) connections.

  • Fibre Channel direct attach (flat SAN) connections.

  • iSCSI connections